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    Port: Do North Dakota gay rights activists really want to achieve their objectives?
    State Rep. Mary Johnson, a Republican from Fargo, has introduced legislation to address alleged discrimination based on sexual orientation in...
    opinion/columns10 hours 47 min ago
    Mike Jacobs: Roosevelt's ND legacy deserves more
    Honoring Theodore Roosevelt continues to be a favorite North Dakota pastime, so it's no surprise Gov. Doug Burgum wants to build a Theodore Roosevelt...
    opinion/columns16 hours 32 min ago
    January 16, 2019
    McFeely: Fargo-Moorhead diversion derailed, for now, by watershed board
    A local watershed board's vote to contest the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources permitting of the Red River diversion could delay the...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 16, 2019 - 9:13pm
    Lloyd Omdahl: Open letter to Democratic Congress
    When President Donald Trump demeaned Vietnam hero John McCain, Republicans rolled their eyes and said nothing. Democrats demonstrated political...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 16, 2019 - 6:13am
    January 15, 2019
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    Port: Legislation would let the government seize guns from people deemed as possibly dangerous
    HB1537, introduced by Rep. Karla Rose Hanson (D-Fargo), is a complicated piece of policy. The crux of it, however, is creating a process whereby...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 15, 2019 - 12:10pm
    Rob Port
    Port: North Dakota is just months away from having no full-time federal judges
    MINOT, N.D. -- This is an appropriate time, here in the middle of the longest government shutdown in American history, to talk about government...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 15, 2019 - 11:44am
    Jacobs on Thursday
    Jacobs on Thursday Herald columnist Mike Jacobs' regular column this week will publish Thursday. Next week, Jacobs will resume his regular schedule of Tuesday publication.
    opinion/columnsJanuary 15, 2019 - 6:13am
    January 14, 2019
    A sign alerting visitors that the facility is closed is posted outside the Library of Congress in Washington on Monday morning, Jan. 22, 2018. (Pete Marovich/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Port: If the longest ever government shutdown teaches us one thing it’s that the federal government is too large
    The current shutdown of the federal government is now the longest in the history of America. I’ll leave it to others to debate the circumstances...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 14, 2019 - 12:42pm
    January 13, 2019
    Forum New Service columnist Mike McFeely
    McFeely: Fact is, ND legislators are smarter than you
    FARGO — There is much fire and brimstone from the left side of the political aisle in North Dakota, at least as much as there can be from a...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 13, 2019 - 5:27pm
    Commentary: This is why the federal government will have a hard time regulating prescription opioids
    This past week, President Donald Trump argued on national television that to end the opioid epidemic, Congress needed to fund the building of...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 13, 2019 - 1:39pm
    January 10, 2019
    A map compiled by Minnesota journalist David Montgomery of City Data, showing what a combined North and South Dakota would look like. The new state would be called Megakota, according to a joke online petition calling for the merger. Megakota would have a population of 1.62 million and would be the fourth-largest state by land area.
    McFeely: 'Megakota' would be huge, with powerful economy
    The idea of the Dakotas being something different than a North and a South is not entirely new. There was the controversial idea in the 1980s...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 7:53pm
    Jessie Veeder, Coming Home columnist.
    Veeder: January is a little too good at loneliness
    I sat on the floor in the basement and cried. I cried while my 3-year-old’s voice bubbled and babbled a narrative for her dolls as they navigated...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 3:21pm
    Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Strasburg, N.D. Katie Pinke / Forum News Service
    Pinke: Businesses should decide their Sunday hours, not government
    Do you shop on Sunday mornings? I don’t. In fact, my home state of North Dakota is the only state with a law that doesn’t allow you to shop...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 3:08pm
    Rob Port
    Port: Measure 1 is bad policy, and exactly why the initiated measure process needs reform
    MINOT, N.D. -- With a new session of the state Legislature getting down to business, left-wing commentators in the state have begun their biannual...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 12:27pm
    Gov. Doug Burgum delivers his State of the State Address in front of a joint session of the 66th legislature in the house chamber of the capitol. Tom Stromme / Bismarck Tribune
    Port: Burgum needs to give up on declining his salary
    I hate that our politicians, exploiting the populist mores of the electorate, are making a spectacle out of declining their salaries. It’s...
    opinion/columnsJanuary 10, 2019 - 11:05am
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